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SSL Redirect

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Convert NGINX SSL redirect annotations to Gateway API HTTP redirect filters.

The ssl-redirect annotation tells NGINX to redirect HTTP to HTTPS. In Gateway API, this becomes a RequestRedirect filter on the HTTPRoute. The referenced TLS Secret must exist in the same namespace as the generated Gateway.

Before: Ingress with SSL redirect

cat <<'EOF' > ssl-redirect-ingress.yaml
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: ssl-redirect-demo
  annotations:
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect: "true"
spec:
  ingressClassName: nginx
  tls:
  - hosts:
    - secure.example.com
    secretName: secure-example-tls
  rules:
  - host: secure.example.com
    http:
      paths:
      - backend:
          service:
            name: web-app
            port:
              number: 8080
        path: /
        pathType: Prefix
EOF

Convert

ingress2gateway print --providers=ingress-nginx --emitter=agentgateway \
  --input-file ssl-redirect-ingress.yaml > ssl-redirect-agentgateway.yaml

After: HTTPRoute(s) with redirect

cat ssl-redirect-agentgateway.yaml

In v0.5.0, the provider generates an HTTP redirect route with a RequestRedirect filter (308 to HTTPS) and no backends. A separate HTTPS route carries the backend traffic. Shown below is the HTTP redirect route:

apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: HTTPRoute
metadata:
  name: ssl-redirect-demo-secure-example-com-http
spec:
  hostnames:
  - secure.example.com
  parentRefs:
  - name: nginx
    port: 80
  rules:
  - matches:
    - path:
        type: PathPrefix
        value: /
    filters:
    - type: RequestRedirect
      requestRedirect:
        scheme: https
        statusCode: 308

Note

The generated redirect preserves NGINX’s default status code of 308.

Apply

kubectl apply -f ssl-redirect-agentgateway.yaml
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